There's a lot of little jobs that people love to pay you for, like clipping peoples' fields, or tutoring, or giving baseball lessons. I was a pizza delivery guy one summer during high school, which gave me a lot of extra money.

Not too much. I'm already very familiar with the 30 or so companies I trade. The only ETF I trade is SDS, a leveraged inverse ETF. I just use it when I can't find any of my usual stocks are down enough to buy.

quote:And do you have any sort of strategy or do you just pull the trigger on random stocks?

Certainly not random stocks! I look for anomalies in the prices of about 30 stocks, all considered to be large caps. If the price goes up or down outside of a "normal" daily range without any unusual news on that company, I will either buy or short the stock.

I've made 227 trades with 12 of those trades resulting in a loss. One of those 12 losses was one for JPM in May. I made an unfortunate move and bought JPM the day before the "London Whale" write-down news broke. (No one can accuse me of having insider info on JPM! ) That trade caused a loss of $8,908.77. I bought at $43.197 and sold at $36.69. That one hurt bad. It was by far the biggest loss I've ever had in my day trading. Net of the 12 losses my "profit" this year, Y-T-D, is $48,262.95. Without the JPM loss I would have had over $57,000. DAMN THAT LONDON WHALE!!!

quote:Damn, I could do this on the weekends during the spring. That's usually my slow time.

It's incredibly profitable, but you have to know a farmer who would be big enough to supply you without pissing off his buyer.

If crawfish are $2.00 per lb in BR, farmers are getting somewhere around $1.00 south of Lafayette. It takes some time to set everything up, but for 60 bucks in gas and an add in the newspaper, you can make ~$1.00 per pound. I would also sell burlap sacks (cost maybe 5 bucks) for 25 dollars. In addition some people would tip me.

The downside is that this really only works aobut 5 weekends per year.

Their is a marketing research firm next door to my office and every month or so they will call me for a research opportunity. I usually get paid $50-100 to test Wendys chicken nuggets or Arbys sandwiches or Starbucks coffee.

It's great. Off the top of my head I have been paid for the following things: 1)Wendy's spicy chicken fingers 2)Arbys roast beef sandwich 3)Starbucks coffee 4)Some form of protein bars 5)Pizza Hut Sub Sandwiches 6)Wendy's chicken sandwich

Google where you live + marketing research and sign up for their email list, such an easy way to get a few extra bucks.

Sold 4 songs to Disney past year, 2000-3000 per track, keep 50% of royalties, average 1-2 year past 5-6 years. Also do work for Getty Images which treats me well. BMI mailbox money is awesome.

Did new hire kits for one of wife's clients, averaged 8-10k a year on this job last 3 years but this year they went 100 electronic. Didn't have time with real estate market the way it is here anyways (although I would have found a way!)

re: What do you do for 'extra' money?(Posted by bpfergu on 12/12/12 at 10:58 am to wegotdatwood)

Multi-tabled (24+ tables) online poker before Full Tilt and Pokerstars shut down/were closed to US players. Also traded options in college but I don't have time during the day to do that anymore since I work full time. I have a couple ideas of stuff to work on at night that could potentially earn a few bucks but I just have to get off my lazy arse and do them.